{"id":56943,"date":"2017-01-04T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dave_barrys_2016_year_in_review_column\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T02:20:56","slug":"dave_barrys_2016_year_in_review_column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56943","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barry&#39;s 2016 Year in Review Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abroad, the summer Olympic games open in Brazil amid dire warnings about Zika, riots, muggers, muggers with Zika and windsurfers being attacked by predatory oceangoing feces. But the games for the most part go smoothly, the biggest glitch being when one of the diving pools mysteriously turns a dark, murky green. The mystery is finally solved when the pool is drained, revealing a Russian nuclear submarine, which Russia insists is in international waters.<\/p>\n<p>In the athletic competition, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt becomes the first athlete ever to win the men\u2019s 100 meter final wearing flip-flops&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/dave-barry\/article123321019.html#storylink=cpy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/dave-barry\/article123321019.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abroad, the summer Olympic games open in Brazil amid dire warnings about Zika, riots, muggers, muggers with Zika and windsurfers being attacked by predatory oceangoing feces. But the games for the most part go smoothly, the biggest glitch being when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56943\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,50,209,133,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-humor-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}